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Did it elicite (sic) any reactions of concern? Nope

That is bothering me a lot. I expect a lot more to come out about that. Reading here she was a nurse! Was there a father in that home? She seems to have thought she was doing a good thing by taking the kid in. I have seen that, too, and then things went bad.

My teenage son brought a gun home years ago now from a friend's house and his sisters narced him off (they did the right thing imo). I got the gun and took it back to the parents and gave my son a good tongue lashing for that. I don't believe anything ever came of it, but my fingerprints would have been on that gun. My big mistake was that I should have taken it to the police, maybe instinctively I was afraid my son would have gotten in trouble, probably could have, but I didn't think about it consciously then. I was angry that the father was so loose with his guns, letting a jr high kid get access to them. I was also angry that my son took up with a kid like that; he wasn't one of his regular friends.

How do you keep firearms away from kids? Realistically? My son had a Mormon friend who came from what I considered a good, responsible family, still do. The father was an avid hunter and had his guns displayed in a glass gun cabinet in the living room. Any of their kids or friends could have easily gotten those, fortunately didn't. I'm still not anti-gun, just want only emotionally stable, responsible people to have them.

Why don't they have metal detectors at the malls? They do last I knew at the main place I buy groceries and another supermarket in a fringe part of town, couldn't miss them, had to walk through a metal hoop every time you entered the store. I don't know how well they work, but that made me feel a little safer, although I don't spook that easily, and it could give you a false sense of security.

If some disturbed individual is determined enough, they are going to find a way to carry out their sick plans one way or another.